Local jobless rates for January down from a year ago, but up from December

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Posted Mar. 11, 2014 at 12:15 PM
Updated Mar 11, 2014 at 12:17 PM

Posted Mar. 11, 2014 at 12:15 PM
Updated Mar 11, 2014 at 12:17 PM

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Unemployment rates dropped in January in Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties compared to a year earlier.

Orange County’s unemployment rate fell to 6.6 percent from 8.5 percent in January 2013. Sullivan’s dropped to 8.9 percent in January, down from 10.7 percent a year earlier. Ulster’s dropped to 7.5 percent from 9.7 percent in January 2013, according to figures released Tuesday by the state Department of Labor.

However, all three counties’ rates were higher in January than they had been in December.

Overall, the Hudson Valley region had an unemployment rate of 6.3 percent in January.